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Estelle Crafford
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Steven Runge
2 years ago

Dear Dr. Runge, I am busy with my Masters degree and would appreciate your feedback on the below, please. From your teachings, I learned that the expected word order in Greek for finite verbs in indicative, imperative, and subjunctive moods is a verb-pronoun-subject-object-indirect object order. My question pertains to the constituent orders in the two infinitival clauses in Matthew 7:11d (οἴδατε δόματα ἀγαθὰ διδόναι τοῖς τέκνοις ὑμῶν, κ.τ.λ ) and 7:18 (οὐ δύναται δένδρον ἀγαθόν καρπούς πονηρούς ποιεῖν (7:18; οὐδὲ [δύναται] δένδρον σαπρὀν καρποὐς καλούς ποιεῖν.), respectively. In both instances, the constituent order seems to conform to a default (VS/VO) order, but in the LDGNT you've marked the subjects δένδρον ἀγαθόν/σαπρὀν as P1 constituents, and the objects καρπούς πονηρούς/καλούς as emphatic (P2) constituents. In the case of the latter, the information is established (and not newly asserted), so it adds to my confusion. What am I missing? Is there perhaps a specific rule that governs constituent order in infinitival clauses that I am unaware of? Warm regards, Estelle